Re: Changing file & directory names

FROM : Matt Neuburg
DATE : Sun Jul 02 09:27:21 2006

On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 21:39:52 -0400, Dean Snyder <dean.<email_removed>> said:

>If I change the contents of the file and save it (using NSTextView
>writeRTFDToFile), but do not rename/move the file, then both the
>creation date and the modification date are changed to reflect the time
>the file was saved. That is clearly wrong behavior - only the
>modification date should be changed.


I don't think so. writeRTFDtoFile never promised you a rose garden. It is
not a "save" action in the sense you are imagining: it is a "create a file"
action (happily overwriting an existing file if so commanded). You'll find
that -NSString writeToFile:..., for example, is just the same way. And
rightly so; this is a completely new file. The file that was there before,
by the same name, could be anything; nothing guarantees that it is the "same
document". That notion is just something you made up.

If you want a "save" action, where there *is* a notion of the "same
document", as in the document architecture, then either *use* the document
architecture (which does the right thing for you) or be prepared to manage
more of the housekeeping yourself.

m.

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